I Am Legend Book Ending. It was also an inspiration behind night of the. While an ending that direct wouldn't have worked at all in this interpretation of i am legend, the way this original ending plays out actually caters much more to that concept than the one we saw.
He discovers at the end that, while he was thinking of the monsters as some kind of myth/legend in real life, like vampires, they thought the same thing of him: In this version the alpha male zombie who set the trap. In the book the main character robert neville realises that the zombies are not evil per say, they are simply part of the new race.
My good friend ryan has been razzing me for sometime over my absolute hatred of the ending i am legend (the book, not the movie).
I picked it up mostly because i read about the alternate ending of the will smith movie, which some criticized for not following the spirit of the book. By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. Neville gets out of this. While an ending that direct wouldn't have worked at all in this interpretation of i am legend, the way this original ending plays out actually caters much more to that concept than the one we saw.